[bksvol-discuss] Re: If text is too good
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:46:21 -0500
Actually, the few E-books I have seen had pretty weird formatting. I think
I can get better results scanning and editing. Sometimes there are mistakes
I am sure, but there aren't very many, and I often ask for help for
individual words that are messed up and unguessable, so I am basically
repeating what other said. If there is no obvious indication that it was an
E-book it probably wasn't. I don't think anyone is going to go after
bookshare for having perfect copies of books, because they won't have
access, and won't be able to tell it is an E-book if you can't. Suspicion
won't work for the law, and if it was determined to be an E-book later it
could be removed.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 4:46 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: If text is too good
> Paula
>
> Please understand that my query was a result of the high quality of the
> submission and is, in effect, a praise of that.
> Perfect formatting, pages easily found, perfect spelling -- in short the
> textbook example of what scanning truly can do.
> As a potential scanner myself still researching both ocr packages and
> hardware, I am trying to understand what separates the acceptible from the
> good from the very good to the outstanding.
> Part, of course, is the equipment. Part is the technique of not only the
> scanning but the work thereafter.
> Part is the experience in doing the task over and over.
> Frankly, I am awaiting the approval by the admins of this book as it will
> give me a link to her other submissions.
> I want to look at some of them to see what I can learn from them as well
> as well as the work of other exceptional submitters.
> Not to incur anyone's wrath, I won't mention any other names -- but there
> are a number of you who routinely submit that I am very impressed by what
> you do on a daily basis.
>
> Has anyone ever set down in words, in an article or minibook, a thome on
> the art of quality scanning; how to select equipment; how to deal with
> difficult situations such as book bindings and the like.
> and oh yes, how to use the equpment. While such a book won't make the NY
> Times best seller list, it would be appreciated by a lot of people out
> there who wishes they could scan within 50% of the ideal.
>
>
>
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